No, you can’t learn any programming language just by reading a book. You have to practice to understand the concepts better. 😏
As a developer, we feel frustrated by the quality of the code sometimes when we couldn’t figure out how to make it better. A good book will always give you insights into a certain area.
This 5 Best Programming Books helps me to grow my mindset when coding and find better coding techniques. So here’s the summary of the 5 books:
Refactoring is a process that improves the design of existing code. Doesn’t just mean making it prettier. It’s often used to make our code more maintainable.
Refactoring code is all about making it more modular, easier to comprehend and change, and therefore more maintainable. Taking into this book, you will be able to find out:
The process of refactoring with deeply explaining how to do the various refactorings and opens with a simple example that describes the whole process as well as the obstacles of refactoring.
Some introductory chapters that discuss how to recognize “bad smells” in code that need to refactor, and the role of testing.
How to write the tests and test-driven development principles to make it easy for others on your team (and yourself) upon the refactored code that have written.
How refactoring code is influenced developers to become better at writing better software with the structural integrity and performance of such existing software programs.
Even bad code can function, but if the code isn’t clean, it can lose countless hours and resources of a development organization. Clean code means that the code you writes is easy to read, easy to maintain and extend.
As a developer, our job required us to read lots of code and we will need to think about how to make the code work, and what’s wrong with it. This book is organized with case studies of cleaning up the code:
Bring you to think about your professional values and your commitment to your craft.
Introduces the disciplines, techniques, tools, and practices of true software craftsmanship with practical advice — from estimating and coding to refactoring and testing.
This book covers much more than technique — it’s about attitude.
Learn how to work well and work clean, communicate and estimate faithfully and understand that deep knowledge comes with a responsibility to act.
This book has been around for 20 years and become one of the biggest selling programming books ever published, with over 1 million copies sold worldwide.
An excellent resource for anyone who wants to learn how to be a better programmer or improve their skills as one already does exist in this world. Now, this new edition re-examines what it means to be a modern programmer and how to take responsibility for your work and career:
Learn about how to work with legacy code, solve the underlying problems of concurrent code, test ruthlessly and effectively (including property-based testing), delight your users, and more.
Tons of lessons that have helped a generation of programmers examine the very essence of software development, independent of any particular language, framework, or methodology.
Topics range from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse.
Michael Feathers described how these people can find ways of adapting their approach so as not only to work more effectively but also enjoy themselves more at work every day! This book explains:
Why people who have worked on legacy systems often feel like they are working in an alien world.
A catalog of 24 dependency-breaking techniques that help you work with program elements in isolation and make safer changes.
The start-to-finish strategies for working more effectively with large and untested legacy code bases.
Some valuable insights into the psychology of software development that can help you improve your productivity as a developer.
This book is a good book for beginners, and it also serves as an excellent refresher for experienced developers who want to brush up on their design patterns.
This new edition is updated for Java 8 — which will show you the tried-and-true, road-tested patterns used by developers to create functional, elegant, reusable, and flexible software. Let me explain a bit about this book:
It uses the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory learning experience to prevent a text-heavy approach that puts you to sleep.
This book shows the patterns that matter, when to use them, and how to apply them to your own designs (and when NOT to use them).
All the code samples are in Java. You will learn how patterns are used in the Java API, and how to exploit Java’s built-in pattern support.
However, I would also be the first to admit, it is also quite a difficult read, especially if you are new to software design patterns.
It is written and approaches the subject from a very academic perspective, like so many software development text books written in the 90’s do.
I hope these books can help you in some way because your time is valuable to spend struggling with new knowledge. There are good books on how to improve your coding but like any skill, coding requires practice.
